Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science..

Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a proc….

Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special….

In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow a….

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence..

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the fal….

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out..

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the ne….

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate..

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning..

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground..

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases..

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface..

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation..

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier..

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to….

I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of fur….

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences..

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying..

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes….

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out..